The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The seal marks you out as royalty determines how you carry yourself

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.

I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing