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

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.