The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

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

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.