Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.