Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

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

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.