Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.