[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine