We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.