Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.