The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.