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

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

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

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.