I'm Not What You'd Call A Fearless

There Is No Evidence That We've Been Placed On This Planet To Be Especially Happy Or Especially Normal. And In Fact Our Unhappiness And Our Strangeness, Our Anxieties And Compulsions, Those Least Fashionable Aspects Of Our Personalities, Are Quite Often What Lead Us To Do Rather Interesting Things.

I Think If Somebody Is So Set In Their Ways About What They Feel About Something - And You Get This A Lot In Academia, Of Course, And Also Different Sorts Of Journalism Too - You're Going To Sweep Under The Carpet The Facts That Don't Suit Your Thesis. And I Think That Happens Quite A Lot In The Courtroom, For Instance.

Success Is Always Less Funny Than Failure.

But On The Extremist Side I Didn't Get Any Rejections At All. Everyone Agreed To Talk To Me.

Twitter Wanted To Become A More Egalitarian Justice System, But Instead It Became A Draconian One.