I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

We all are so deeply interconnected

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

With you, what you see is what you get. And I see cheap.

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.