The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.

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

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.