All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.p. 30

Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Good friends and great pets. Key to a good life!!! Who says you have to be paired up with a partner?

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.