Religion is the politics of faith

I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

America has defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend its own.

It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.