Good men prefer to be accountable.

Family, can’t live with them, can’t orbitally bombard them back to the foul, oozing proto-plasma they crawled out of, I thought grimly.

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

So will you meet me?” “Yeah. Sure. Where.” “Montrag’s safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.