When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

I am an autismo, GOML M9

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.