You develop a style from writing a lot.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

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

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.