To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

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

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

The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.