I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single... well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system that has worked pretty well for twenty-five hundred years. So you see I am ecumenical in my dislike for the Book. But like it or not, the Book is there; and because of it people die; and the world is in danger.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his …

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.