Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

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

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.