My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.

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

I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices and respond to logic. But I don't suffer from that delusion as wholeheartedly as I did in the past. So if there's a fundamental difference, it's that I've accepted the fact that most imbeciles will never 'get' me and I shouldn't allow myself to get so upset about it.

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.

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

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

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