Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against terror are so anti-liberal that you would think it would be liberals leaping to protect the world from these monstrous ideologies.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?