The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.