If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
“Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.”