It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

Of course, I do everything for money.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.