My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
I like surprises.
I'm terrified of losing my voice.
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
