“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”

“But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.”

“We judge ourselves by our best intentions and most noble deeds but we will be judged by our worst act.”

“We remember the pains of our pasts, so we don't make the same mistakes in our futures.”

“Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.”

“We are ultimately unknowable to ourselves and others. Our past and future are mostly unknowable. God is unknowable. For the present the universe - its origins and its destiny - is unknowable, as is whether there are many universes. Infinity is unknowable. These are some of the fundamental reasons why I call myself an agnostic.”

“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”