We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.