I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.

Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

The world is experiencing great change, but you've got loads of people terrified of this change and the Donald Trumps, the Boris Johnsons making utterly simplistic, reductionist policy proposals that are unrealistic but then people buy it up.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.