Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.