Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.