Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

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

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.