[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.