Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.