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

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

"Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.