You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.