People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

Science is magic that works.

People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next