In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

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

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.