A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.
Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.