Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

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.