Good information is the best medicine.

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

Why I let you talk me into these things, I’ll never understand. One day you’re going to get me into some serious trouble, " Rowan said, shaking his head.

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I think of Joshua Cohen. Who else?

I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.