I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.