Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.