It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.