Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

In entirely unrelated news, there's a new proposal to mandate coverage for gay infertility. The problem is that gay infertility is just biology. Two men and two women are not infertile. They're just not capable of impregnating each other. This isn't a medical problem. It's a mental problem.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.