We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.

It is the conversion of time that produces results and products.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.