Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

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