It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That I think is valuable. In terms of actually tweeting myself, I have just lost enthusiasm for it. Maybe I'll do some of it this week to tell people about the PEN Festival and encourage them to show up.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts