When Your Kids Turn 13, An Alien

Jean Paul Sartre Says In "no Exit" That Hell Is Other People. Well, Our Task In Life Is To Make It Heaven. Or At Least Earth.

It's Always Better To Be Wise Than To Be Smart.

Real Listening Is A Willingness To Let The Other Person Change You.

Laugh At Yourself, But Don't Ever Aim Your Doubt At Yourself. Be Bold. When You Embark For Strange Places, Don't Leave Any Of Yourself Safely On Shore. Have The Nerve To Go Into Unexplored Territory.

I Still Don't Like The Word Agnostic. It's Too Fancy. I'm Simply Not A Believer. But, As Simple As This Notion Is, It Confuses Some People. Someone Wrote A Wikipedia Entry About Me, Identifying Me As An Atheist Because I'd Said In A Book I Wrote That I Wasn't A Believer. I Guess In A World Uncomfortable With Uncertainty, An Unbeliever Must Be An Atheist, And Possibly An Infidel. This Gets Us Back To That Most Pressing Of Human Questions: Why Do People Worry So Much About Other People's Holding Beliefs Other Than Their Own?