The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

You can't have occupation and human rights.