Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Honor does not have to be defended.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

Our love lives because I live.

I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.

1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship.

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.