Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

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

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.