Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

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

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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

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.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.