"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."

"I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time."

"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."

"I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?"

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."