Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

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.

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

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