"Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can."

"I don't smile artificially for photos because such smiles look insipid to me. Old photos from before 1950 seem much more dignified because the subjects did not smile. I'd rather be photographed that w…"

"Giving up your privacy is giving up your freedom."

"Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice."

"The article refers to the sex worker as a 'child', but that is not so. Elsewhere it has been published that she is 16 years old. That is late adolescence, not childhood."