The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.