"I'm a writer, not a politician. My job is to ask questions, not to provide answers."

"Sometimes you have to choose between a life of meaning and a life of comfort."

"The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a new Dark Age, when knowledge will be replaced by dogma, and the light of reason extinguished."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

"The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."