Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

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.