Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

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.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

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