You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.