The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

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.