I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

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

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.