We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some point, who have been raised to believe that they live in a regime that is run by a god.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.