Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.

I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.