If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a no-surrender position. This is how we live. We live in a country in which we have these rights, and we're not going to give them up. Full stop. The end.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.