In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

No child's behind left.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

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

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.