At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past. - Isaac Asimov

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

no uniformity, but the primitive diversity of a strong mind, untouched and unmolded except by the manifold disorganizations of the universe.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.