Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

If I spend every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all his goodness to us, that would still not be enough.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.