“Evolution can’t be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it’s a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn’t aim.”

“In the end, theistic evolution is not a useful compromise between science and religion. Insofar as it makes testable predictions, it has been falsified, and insofar as it makes claims that can’t be tested, it can be ignored.”

“Evolution doesn’t work on creationists.”

“Education doesn’t have aims. It is the aim of other things.”

“Tell me that Billy Joe Armstrong doesn’t look like a fruit.”

“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.”

“It doesn’t trivialize morality to argue that it is based on evolution and secular reason.”

“I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do.”

“Don’t tell me you are a moderate. Moderate is an adjective. It is a qualifier. You may be a moderate conservative, a moderate democrat, or a moderate drinker but it doesn’t tell me what you believe in. It’s not a philosophy. Unless all you believe in is moderation for the sake of moderation. Grow up! You can’t be a good egg all of your life. Someday you have to either hatch or rot.”

“I like to say that neurotypical social interaction is a second language. It’s not as if we can’t learn it. It’s just that it doesn’t necessarily come easily to us.”