The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.