It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.