To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

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

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.