The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

I vote and I do jury duty.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described II Duce (“the leader”) as “a man sent by providence.”

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.