The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

I love tailcoats; I love blazers. I love tailored things.