If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

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.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.