“Being safe is fiction.”

“After the alarm clock, it is the turn of Mr Kellogg to shame us into action. 'Rise and Shine!' he exhorts us from the Corn Flakes packet. The physical act of crunching cornflakes or other cereals is portraied in TV advertising as working an amazing alchemy on slothful human beings: the incoherent, unshaven sluggard (bad) is magically transformed into a smart and jolly worker full of vigour and purpose (good) by the positive power of cereal. Kellogg himself, tellingly, was a puritanical health-nut who never had sex (he preferred enemas). Such are the architects of our daily life.”

“It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .”

“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”

“Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society”

“When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.”

“It seems no body's business to try to better things”