A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.