Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.