Joseph Glanvill

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.