You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

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