I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.