When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.