I think we've just entered the reign of piety and iron.

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

I, for example, recently finished writing an article about the latest wave of “home-grown” Islamic suicide-murderers. It was impossible not to notice one thing that their profiles and Web sites had in common. All of them complained about the impossibility of finding a woman, or sometimes a woman of sufficient piety. Meanwhile their public propaganda was hot with disgust and indignation at the phenomenon of female inchastity. The connection between repression and orgasmically violent action appeared woefully evident.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.