Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.