I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

I remember going to university, and the people who'd left home for the first time looked at the food and were horrified. Whereas, my view was that if it was vaguely edible, then it's fine.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.