I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

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

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.