Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also true that liberals who don't want guns are puny by and large. They're not risking anything, all they're doing is saying they don't like something. Liberals are quick to say this should happen and this should not happen, but they don't do anything about it much.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.