“Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.”

There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.

It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

If you can’t be direct, why be?

There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Remember we’re all in this alone.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

While money can’t buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form.

You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.

More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.