“Therefore I call a spade a spade, and not a flat bladed instrument for the redistribution of granular matter.”

“Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: “The majority is always wrong.”

“But that pain is then inflicted onto other people, often many other people, all because we lack the courage to stand up and be accountable for all the things both good and bad, we have done in our lives. So by lying, that pain, rather than staying where it belongs, with the person who has done something wrong, is handed out to the innocent. To be a liar therefore is to be a coward.”

“I asked at my local cinema, if they were going to show Anna Karenina, they said no, but they had Anaconda.”

“Sometimes I want to walk into a Christian Church, and or a Jewish Synagogue, and or a Muslim Mosque, and yell at the top of my lungs – “You people are all Crazy!”

“Agree with me, or disagree with me, that is your choice. But I will say this to you, and if nothing else, take this with you: Question everything. Accept nothing without evidence or proof.”

“There will be a lot of young men returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have seen terrible things, and who know all about the “loved and lost”, and they will be acting out their grief with reckless behaviour. When I see broken hearted young men, abusing alcohol and angry and trying to make sense of the senseless, I know and understand from my own experiences, something of what they have gone through.”