The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.