People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.