What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.