The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

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