Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Loving someone who doesn't love themselves is like farting for someone whose sense of smell doesn't exist

Everything in Life that Comes-Goes

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.

Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

You must always aim for further growth.