Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.

If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don’t know what does.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.