“Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!”

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”

“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.”

“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as present-day Myrtle but as the product of all her past experiences.”

“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.”

“...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.”

“Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. ”