Chance is as relentless as necessity.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.