All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. - Kurt Vonnegut

"That was the strength of the Nazis," she said. "They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make him stay away."

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to the names of persons who have checked out those titles.