Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.