Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

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.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.