...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

You taught me to love the dark, Aidan. If that 's wrong, then I'm already damned.

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

Get out on the stage of life.

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!

Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.