I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of blasphemy which I used for so many years. I've used many other organs to blaspheme as well if it comes to that.