Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.