Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness.

Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical characters - these figures have real weight. They might be ju…

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely …

Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

I don't think in any language. I think in images. I don't believe that people think in languages. They don't move their lips when they think. It is only a cert…

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.