Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.