I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

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

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

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

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

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.