Nothing in human life is inherently private.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

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 true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.