Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

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.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.