If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Death is not my best subject.

Dance brings us all together.

The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.