In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.