My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

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

Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.