My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

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

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

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

In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.