"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."

"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."

"Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear."

"I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair."

"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."