Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.