To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out "justice."

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.