Bon mots

Publishing posts in this blog is like making a gold disc, putting it on the Voyager spacecraft, and sending it out into the universe for some unknown, and very unlikely, reader sone centuries from now.

Nobody ever has written, or could write, a complete autobiography. Discuss.

A metaphor a day keeps the Alzheimer\’s away.

David Lodge said he, like all writers, had a good English teacher at school. So: All writers had a good English teacher at school. I had a good English teacher at school. I am a writer. Right?

Who was it said that it is not the answers that are important in science but the questions? Some idiot. Nobel and other prizes are awarded for answers, not questions.

It is a rare consolation to reflect that no matter how powerful the dictator, general, religious leader, environmental vandal, criminal, media magnate, weapons maker, energy company CEO, abattoir owner, no matter how invincible they seem, and no matter how much damage they do, in the end they all die.

If humans had lived 70 million years ago would we have had dino watchers and dino twitchers?

Is a life worth more than the sum of its parts?

When you say \”There\’s been a lot of water under the bridge\”, the bridge you mean is usually the one over troubled water.