Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.
Every nutritious sexual recipe calls for at least a pinch of love, and the fucks that rate four-star rankings from both gourmets and health-food nuts used cupfuls. Not that sex should be regarded as t...
Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine.
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while other...
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the...
That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.
Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washe...
On the right side-panel of the verbose and somewhat tautological box of Cheerios, it is written,If you are not satisfied with the quality and/or performance of the Cheerios in this box, send name, add...
Not surprisingly, the socks remain silent, as was their legal right.
Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead.
Leigh-Cheri knew better than to jump to conclusions on a Sunday.
I've lived most of my adult life outside the law, and never have I compromised with authority. But neither have I gone out and picked fights with authority. That's stupid. They’re waiting for that; th...
For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that one could improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearrangin...
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
…not a fighter…an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages;He doesn’t defend, he expands;He doesn’t destroy, he transforms;He doesn’t reject, he explores; ….
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves,...