I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.