Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

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.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.