The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.