The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

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