They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.