A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.