If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I'm not opposed, I'm very highly skeptical and critical of it.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity