A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth century or whatever. And Christianity in the fifteenth century, after all, was full of inquisitions and burnings at the stake, and so on and so on. So give Islam time, and it will reach the point of maturity that other religions have. But Mormonism is much younger than Islam, and it's got there already. So I don't think that's an argument that works.