perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?