If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year..

A busybody's work is never done..

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them..

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out..

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher..

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday a….

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for ….

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us..

Anti-Semitism is extremely common..

I had lost faith in biography..

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels..

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind..

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead..

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there..

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in th….

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational..

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief ….

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death..

Truth comes to us mediated by human love..

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statement….

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative techni….