But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

I'm so pleased that I'm coming back to Armageddon, just to meet everyone. I'm very excited about doing it, I've heard great things about Armageddon and I'm just really excited to get there.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Life without literary studies is death.