I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.