A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.