But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

Don't let the bastards get you down.