"People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve."

"A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative."

"One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue."

"Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be."

"For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night."

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."