“And onto the screen pops a couple of housewives who start having a poop fit when they see how clean their new dish soap got the dinner plates”

“I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.”

“There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.”

“I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.”

“Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?”

“It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.”

“The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest”