Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

You are not attracting the wrong people, you are simply accepting them. Saying ‘No’ frees you up so you can say ‘Yes’ when you truly want to.

Labour is blossoming or dancing whereThe body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

I was quaking in my boots.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Every American was to become a performing self.