We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.