I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.