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.

[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.