You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.