Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay, because you're in the safely moral majority.

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.