I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

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.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.