If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.