If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.