Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.