I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

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.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

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