I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds..

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell..

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur..

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – w….

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, ….

The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very s….

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record..