I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do no wrong. I've always thought it was horseshit and does nobody any good. Remember, Lizzie Borden got off largely because the cultural agenda had convinced people that women were morally superior to men, so Lizzie Borden was "incapable" of taking the ax and giving her mother 40 whacks.

The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.