Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both. - Matt Ridley

American presidential politics is entirely based on the myth that a perfect, omniscient, virtuous and incorruptible saviour will emerge from the New Hampshire primary every four years, and proceed to lead his people to the promised land.

I am trying to describe the nature of humans, not prescribe their morality. That something is natural does not make it right.

Below the surface of every banality and cliché there lies irony, cynicism, and profundity.