It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.