I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.