It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.