We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

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.

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.