A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?

When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.