I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

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

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.