History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Specialisation is for insects!

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.