Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

I had lost faith in biography.