Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.