It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.