You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love.