On Love:
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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You have no idea how strong my love is!
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On Life:
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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Look–I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
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On Success:
I should just put it bluntly, because we’re all sort of friends here now – it’s exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that’s the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o’clock in the morning, and I don’t want to go there.
On God:
God is an experience of supreme love.
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God isn’t interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.
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Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.
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