I would rather clean than beg.

I love life more than I love death.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.