If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

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.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

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