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

Thou shalt not take anything on faith

So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.