I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

What memories for mud to have.

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.