If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

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

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.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

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.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.