"They say in your father's house there's many mansions; each one of 'em got a fireproof floor."

"The book of Proverbs repeatedly praises child abuse, saying that the bruises are an indication of a well-trained child. Otherwise, God constantly has people killing children, and sometimes even eating…"

"I could scarcely believe that these were the men who had done so much to influence the course of my own world’s history. It now seemed obvious that all of them were drugged in some way. They were acti…"

"Americans - one of the founders, Gouverneur Morris, described Americans as the first-born children of the commercial age. Because when American was founded, the ideas of Adam Smith, the ideas of John …"

"…I pretended I didn't understand Arabic when he spoke to me in public places. Because when I was a younger child, Arabic was a secret code in the family - I think that’s true for a lot of immigrant fa…"