How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay, because you're in the safely moral majority.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

All of life is a wager

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.