When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.