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.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'