I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

You can only have one aim per debate.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.