People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.