It's awkward to tell others that your spouse has died. Everyone becomes so sad and sorry, and you just hate like heck to have to break the news to someone who hasn't heard the news.

There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Behold we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

It's very hard to write humor.

My media considers the left media to be the bullies on the playground.

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

A woman [shouldn't] have to give a man her body to get his heart.