If you want to take something more seriously, do it publicly. Publishing an article pressures you to think clearly. Competing in a race pressures you to train consistently. Presenting on any topic pressures you to...

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Topics… are what people talk about when they don’t know each other well. Topics… are what men talk about.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis – otherised and stigmatised – you become the prop in a proposition.

I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.