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

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.