I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards it means everything to me that they travel to every game.

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.