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

Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.