The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

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

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.