I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.