A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

Don't burn the day away...

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

Hustle is the most important word--EVER.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?