If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.

Seriously, I ‘ve got to know if I need to protect you from people running with pencils." ~ Laney

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.