"As Good as Great Poetry Gets" by Daniel Mendelsohn in The New York Review of Books"

"I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off."

"“When Allah has given so many halal animals, why must you eat bats and spread the virus?"

"There is a dance of death in the West and actual death in the Middle East, courtesy of the Islamofascists. ... The radical Muslims are on the warpath and they are against everyone else. They are again…"

"The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I've felt that way, too. That's the way I am. That's life. That's the way it will always be. The suffering of this or that person grips me …"