Religion Fosters Servility And Solipsism.

I Don't Envy Or Much Respect People Who Are Completely Politicised.

My Own View Is That This Planet Is Used As A Penal Colony, Lunatic Asylum And Dumping Ground By A Superior Civilisation, To Get Rid Of The Undesirable And Unfit. I Can't Prove It, But You Can't Disprove It Either.

At The Evident Risk Of Seeming Ridiculous, I Want To Begin By Saying That I Have Tried For Much Of My Life To Write As If I Was Composing My Sentences To Be Read Posthumously. I Hope This Isn't Too Melodramatic Or Self-centred A Way Of Saying That I Attempt To Write As If I Did Not Care What Reviewers Said, What Peers Thought, Or What Prevailing Opinions May Be.

Perhaps The Values Of Socialists Can Only Be Realized By Socialists In A Nonsocialist Society.

Talking, It Seemed To Me, Was The Point Of Adult Existence.