I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

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

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.