"A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon."

"It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intol…"

"What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afgha…"

"Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a nat…"

"Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages?...I guess it's because so many of th…"

"The thing was, there's nothing funny about what Christ said. What's funny, really, is the fact that, you know, Christ…"

"that he cares for nothing except what might commend itself to a virtuoso Pagan, and thinks only as men thought before…"

"... she saw herself to be: a demystifier, a critical observer of social processes and systems, an outsider who could …"

"cultivated the role of and/or witch, and — in the (1979) — rewrote the with pistol-toting Mother riding to the rescue…"

"My grandfather was the subject of my best stories. ... He behaved fantastically badly. ... My grandfather was a pries…"