The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.