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

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.