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

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.

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

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.

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

Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.

Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today.

I believe our differences are the little pinches of salt that can make the marriage seem more flavorful.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams...

Complexity - limits competition.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.