If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.