To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.