It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.

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

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.