If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

I'm dying, but so are you

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.