Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.