I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

I grew up in the American South, the segregated South. Now we have a black man who is president. It was an age of apartheid, and now that's over. It was an age of two superpowers frozen in a cold war, and now that's resolved. So history marches on, except for this Arab-Israel conflict, which seems to have a claim on being eternal.

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.