Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.