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If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

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Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the r...more

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Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of ...more

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I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who m...more

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It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

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Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy,...more

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Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

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At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences...more

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on...more

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th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

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Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobst...more

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To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make...more

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What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on...more

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Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)