Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.