When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.