Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.