I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.

I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it.

In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.