For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I'm not a sheep.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I was becoming post-ideological.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

If you can talk, you can write.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.