“I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.”

What’s changed? I’m a dad. That’s fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit.

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

Certain kinds of people just can’t live life taking risks with adventure.

Slowly you become your own man.

Dynamic benign neglect.

The pervasive attitude is that it’s crazy to invite more danger into your life.

We have a society that’s trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

That’s right! The women are smarter!

Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn’t just mean diversity but also togetherness – primarily the understanding of the rules of the game – the European values structure.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you’ll never make it to the top.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.