Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

I grew up amongst biologists.