When Your Kids Turn 13, An Alien

As I Am Becoming Older, The Only Thing That Speeds Up Is Time.

I Still Don't Like The Word Agnostic. It's Too Fancy. I'm Simply Not A Believer. But, As Simple As This Notion Is, It Confuses Some People. Someone Wrote A Wikipedia Entry About Me, Identifying Me As An Atheist Because I'd Said In A Book I Wrote That I Wasn't A Believer. I Guess In A World Uncomfortable With Uncertainty, An Unbeliever Must Be An Atheist, And Possibly An Infidel. This Gets Us Back To That Most Pressing Of Human Questions: Why Do People Worry So Much About Other People's Holding Beliefs Other Than Their Own?

I Have A Final Word Of Advice To Our Students. If You Work Very, Very Hard, This Is The Kind Of Actor, Writer And Director You May Turn Out To Be, And If You Work Extra Hard, This Is The Kind Of Person You May Turn Out To Be.

You Wouldn't Want To Be Called A Sell-out By Selling A Product. Selling Out Was Frowned On, Whereas Now You Can Major In It At Business School.

We're Highly Social Animals - I'm Told By Scientists That What Makes Us Different From Other Animals Is An Acute Social Awareness, Which Is What Has Made Us So Successful.