The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.
I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over. . but it's far from over.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.