Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

I've always said that the big difference between South America and North America with regard to the native population is that in North America they raped them and killed them, and in South America they raped them and married them. The mix was much greater, and that was very good.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.