There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.

The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.

His eyes widened. “Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

The best thing in life aren't things.

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.