Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.