In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.