What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

A good liar must have a good memory.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

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.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.