I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.