Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.

Walking through life, we spend most of our energy choosing the right shoes.

It is never hard to convince a man of something he already wants to believe

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.