[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.

What are you, Zombie Slayer Barbie?" The big man in the back barked a laugh. "You'll pay for that one.

We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.

In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.

Our healthcare is a horror show.

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

The world is more flexible than you might think.

States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.