The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.