In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.