What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.