Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears