well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

...and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

Karma: The delusion of the pretentious who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.

High heels? Painful pleasure.

To err is human to forgive divine.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.