In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.