Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

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

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.