Exclusive humanism — A worldview or social imaginary that is able to account for meaning and significance without any appeal to the divine or transcendence.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.

When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves

Envy is pain at the good fortune of others.

I can assure you that during my tenure as his employee, Bob Ney was the hardest working man in Ohio and Washington. I can further assure you the work that he did and the decisions he made were done with integrity and the highest regard for his office and those he served.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions the Gothic deals in illicit desires in what is prohibited by society.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are.

The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen.