The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.