"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

"The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a new Dark Age, when knowledge will be replaced by dogma, and the light of reason extinguished."

"To be a writer is to be an outsider. It is to be someone who stands on the edges of society, looking in, and then reporting what he sees."

"Writing is a solitary business, but it's also a way of connecting with the world."

"It's always the same story: people are afraid of what they don't understand."