The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.

Evil is done by the living.

Our children are being raised by appliances.

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him

There are certain movies you go and see, and then after, you wanna go home and talk to your best friend and tell her that you really love her.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.