That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.