The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity