Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.

Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: ‘I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.

-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!

Be generous like the ocean with your love. Let the whole world enjoy the abundance.

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.