I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

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

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.