The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

Self-awareness is inevitably erratic, a work in progress, an etch-a-sketch that shifts with the slightest shimmer of movement. Doing the best we can is the best we can do.

So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a human being?"~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

Success is the enemy of comedy.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.