Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.