People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

I went to quite a nice school as a kid, where everyone was quite posh, because my dad was making some money.