It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.