I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full of flavor and, yes... fat. I got skinny on fat and realized I would never have to diet again.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas ? complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Without the element of uncertainty the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be dull routine and eminently unsatisfying.