I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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

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

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

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.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.