If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

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

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.