Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.