Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.