Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.