People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

All of life is a wager

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.