Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.