Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.