Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.