Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.