I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.
The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.
The problem is we don't understand the problem.
We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?
I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.
We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.