When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

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

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.