It’s kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Transcendence is transformation.

Word of advice, ” the Colonel said from the other side. “Don’t tease the zombies.

Everyone’s running from something.

Religion + Good Works = Good WorksSolve for Religion.

The geologic column is a bunch of balarky.

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

If nobody will help you do it alone!

I want to be more like the ocean... no talk and all action.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.