I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.