Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

Dreams

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Fame

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being "somebody," to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Love

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Perfection

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.