I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.