If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

I'm an amazing mama's boy.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.