Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral...

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance.

My pen is my razor, and I’ve been bleeding.

Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of “F**k that”.

I am a precious evil.

As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and...

I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, ‘Enough with the self-medicating.’ Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with life? Life is pain. Life is inconvenience. Life is a tall,...

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust...

Love yourself every day, and twice on Sunday.

…food is capable of feeding far more than a rumbling stomach. Food is life; our well-being demands it. Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become...