Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.