He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

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

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.