I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.