"Writing is hard work. Even when you start with the raw ingredients – a mad family, a sense of humour, talent…it’s hard work. But you do get to sit around in silk pyjamas all day."

"A false and undeliberated conception of what man is lies at the bottom, I think, of the whole bubble-castle of socialist theory. Although few seem to realize it, Marxism rests on the romantic notion o…"

"... I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent fairly convincing, and have no reason to doubt it. ..…"

"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."

"The existence of sexual energy is such an every-day part of life. It's such a natural aspect of life. That we end up relating to without any shame. ."