the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.

And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.

Bret Easton Ellis

Real artists ship.

Steve Jobs

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

Oscar Wilde

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Albert Camus

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

Mark Twain

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or lesser degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may an

Thomas Jefferson

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Interpretation

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Albert Camus

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson