Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love