You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

I was in bar about 15 years ago, a relationship had ended badly, I was very drunk and I thought I would convince myself to try and be gay. Like, at one point I didn't like coffee, then I learned to like it.

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?