In my experience ideology is a lot like religion it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.