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.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.