[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.")

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.

The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.