Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22.

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.