Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .