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 essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.