Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.