If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.