Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

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.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

A good liar must have a good memory.