I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

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

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.