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.

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!

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.

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.

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa.

I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

Do all your eating at a table.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life.