Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.