If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.