I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.