The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

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

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?