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.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some point, who have been raised to believe that they live in a regime that is run by a god.