"The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home."

"One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue."

"I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death."

"Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt."

"I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip."

"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death."

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."