There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we ­persist in self-­centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.