Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.

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.

Cynicism is proof of our intimacy issues with the Divine.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.