“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”

“I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.”

“The mind, it occurs to me, is an engine. There is an ambient mode in which the mind sits idling, before there is information. Some minds idle in a kind of dreading crouch, waiting to be offended. Others stand up straight, eyes slightly wide, expecting to be pleasantly surprised. Some minds, imagining the great What Is Out There, imagine it intends doom for them; others imagine there is something out there that may be suffering and in need of their help.Which is right? Neither.Both.Maybe all of our politics is simply neurology writ large. Maybe there are a finite number of idling modes. Maybe there are just two broad modes, and out of this fact comes our current division.”

“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.”

“I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”