One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.