The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.

He’s letting me see the real him, something he doesn’t allow a lot of people to see.

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.