We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.