Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they don't really have work. The chances of them making a decent life for themselves, of making a family, living in a kind of decent, happy way, are very, very remote. It's very hard for them to ever even have that as a dream, so when people are that deprived of the ordinary hope of human beings, it creates anger. And that anger can be channeled by unscrupulous persons, whether secular or religious leaders, and there's been a lot of that.