The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.