Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

The key function of a leader is, to build more leaders.

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

The Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

I bathe in statistics.

A suburban mall turned vertical.