It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words."

The most important political development of the last two centuries has been the rise of the modern state.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.