He's so big he makes a beeping noise when he walks backwords.
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear the call God makes to us to work with him. Quite often it is not a matter of doing something different, but doing it differently.
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
Ani told them all. . . telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth.
I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings.