It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

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

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

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

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.