Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

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

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.