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“Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.”
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“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”
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“Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.”
Source : "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010. 
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“A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.”
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“If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.”
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“When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if IÂ find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. IÂ think that's a good way to live.”
Source : Discover Magazine (Volume 27, No. 7) Interview, July 2006.
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“At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.”
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“No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.”
Source : "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.
