Quotes from work

Mortality

“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”

“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”

“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”

“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.”

“A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.”