Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

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

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.