Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

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.'

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!