The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I'm not opposed, I'm very highly skeptical and critical of it.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

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

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.