Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.