The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces; 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you could fit all the evidence of innate equality on your pinkie fingernail with room to spare.