You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me.

Tatsuya: What you have "right now" won't necessarily continue on until forever...Hiro: ... Yeah, I know.

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

We can't dispose of the everydayness of people's struggles. We have to build a world that is ultimately supposed to be, very simply, everybody doing what they are happiest doing.

Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.