I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

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

Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet