It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly ­surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast.