Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

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

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

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.