But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

Thank ye."“For what?"“For bein’ who ye are."Gabby chuckled and shook her head, saying, “And who else could I be?

I don't paint what people expect, I paint what my heart yearns to express.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

Keep going and the Lord will help you.

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.