Evil is a form of incompetence.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.