No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.