The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.