Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

I am married to someone I love.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.