Humans are creatures of inertia. Whatever they are doing they are likely to keep doing until forced into another path.

Of all the weird things in the world, the most bizarre is our body and how we got stuck inside it.

"Home" is a delusion, ingrained from our childhood. When you grow up, you can do fine without one. What's important is getting things done.

If you demand a vow of celibacy from your priests, their sexuality will be forced underground where it is bound to do terrible things.

Bad things happen when you insulate people from the effects of their own actions.

Been to Borders and Barnes & Noble but can't find a good tourist guide to the Somali Coast. Guess I'll have to go it alone.

Family members are wonderful people to visit, but you wouldn't want to live with them.

The opposite of religion is not atheism but existentialism, the theory that all meaning derives from what you can see and experience.

The desperate problem of the rich is finding ways to spend their money. Fortunately, plenty of marketers will help them invent new needs.

The products that are most advertised are usually the ones you least need.

Just completed my first WINTER drive in the Alaska Highway, sleeping in truck. Low: -20F. Photos: http://roamingphotos.com/a?alaskahwy

academia—n. a community of educated people united by their lack of experience in the real world.

The purpose of protests is to allow people to vent and think they're changing something when in fact they're changing nothing.

You call me homeless. I call you home-burdened.

The way you remember an event is permanently altered as soon as you see photos of it. The photos themselves become the dominant memory.

Walking down the aisle, taking the marriage vows, the bride is thinking: "What does everyone think of me? Am I doing this right?"

It is not narcissistic to be concerned with your own image and accomplishments, only to think special rules apply to you.

Rule #1 of starting your own religion: Do it thousands of years ago. That way all the evidence is lost except what your followers convey.

You don't need a grand plan to live a meaningful life. After a few traumas, a plan will emerge and you'll know what to do.

There's a difference between freely believing something and believing it because you have set up your life so you now have no choice.