I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.