Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

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

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

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

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.

I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.

When we talk about our problems, we create more of them. When we talk about solutions and positive responses, we create more solutions and positive responses.

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

I am thrilled to be 31, still running and having my daughter watch me even if it is on TV.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.