[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.