I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.