A good liar must have a good memory.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.