Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Eternity is a ham and two people.

You can't think of nothing.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.