People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers. - John Irving

"Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news — the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers — at great cost to the rest of your life."

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!