What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

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

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.