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

Cheap booze is a false economy.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.