Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere curiosity as a character defect. Beware of anyone who questions your motives while ignoring your facts. When someone calls you bad names merely for asking questions, it suggests they know the answer but are terrified to admit it.

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to explain why their opinion should matter to me. I think most of them sense, but would never be brave enough to admit, their subordinate role in the food chain relative to me.

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 never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.