A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.