Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

All the strangest things are true.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

I never really cared about what I looked like.

My goal was to bring good music back.

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

Thank you for bringing me home.

That's what happens when bodies start slapping.