Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

Fascism is a religious concept.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.