There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.