Nov
‘New pathways were firing up in places that had been dark and barren.’
‘Freedom could be such a cruel and difficult thing’
‘Copying other people’s answers’
Aug
‘It is the place where he is meant to be lost.’
Jul
‘Lack of sleep is very much like ADHD’
‘Sufficient Sleep’
‘Uninterrupted sleep’
‘Negative feedback loop’
‘Sleep improving methods’
‘Go to the pub for a drink in the morning.’
‘Suprachiasmatic nucleus’
Jun
‘Human artifice’
‘Literary form’
‘Emotion motion’
‘Chronic insomnia’
May
‘Telomere health’
‘Education is the most effective way to address poverty and violence.’
‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction’
‘It is quite possible to lose a fight you refuse to acknowledge you are in.’
‘More polite titles or euphemisms for dictators’
‘Newspeak’
‘Upheaval and drama’
‘Khodorkovsky’
‘Shame the shameless’
‘He tolls for thee.’
‘Totalitarianism of one person’
‘Potential evil’
‘Monsters: born or made?’
‘Far from naive’
Apr
‘It is the difference between people resenting that they are not free and people believing they do not deserve freedom.’
‘the export of Russia’s problems to its chosen adversaries’
‘A regime of sadopopulism’
‘Life itself becomes a manufactured crisis.’
‘Politics of eternity’
‘Oligarchy works as a patronage system that dissolves democracy, law, and patriotism.’
‘Politics of eternity’
‘I Know What You Need’
‘Russian bots’
‘News from Facebook’
‘Strategic relativism’
‘Russian proclamation of innocence’
‘Arrive in tanks’
‘Schizofascism’
‘Ukraine agreed to give up all nuclear weapons.’
‘Getting one’s own history wrong’
‘In Ukraine, language is a spectrum.’
‘Proizvol bespredel’
‘Discussing actual enemies would reveal actual weaknesses’
‘Divine totality’
‘Defensive Russia, always a victim’
‘Making an exception for itself’
‘Descriptive, not judgemental’
‘Your risk profile doesn’t stabilise until you’re about twenty-five.’
‘For a while – say, twenty years or more’
‘The private language’
‘As lightly as a bird’
‘Cheese’
‘Panic and pandemonium’
‘A liar by proxy’
‘Sad sex’
‘Later in life’
‘Co-dependency’
Mar
‘A tone of voice normally attached’
‘Certain amount of cramp’
‘Dip into and out’
‘Put feelings into words’
‘Whence, why, whither’
‘Pathetically incapable of making a meal for ourselves’
‘There is panic and pandemonium waiting to break out inside all of us.’
‘Right and proper’
‘Amalgamate’
‘Mental clutter of theorising’
‘Cauterizes the heart’
‘Adulthood’
‘Understanding of the world’
‘Caboodle’
‘They definitely are’
‘An eight-year-old’s whine’
‘Car crash of cliché’
‘Escape both category and description’
‘If I failed to display negatives, then positives would be assumed.’
‘Awwwwww, I said, super naked.’
‘Flash-packer’
‘Art imitating life’
‘Balance’
Feb
‘Like a lady’
‘Don’t overplan’
Jan
‘Unlonely’
‘World-changing ethicist’
‘Forget it once’
‘Replace sleep’
‘Followed by’
‘Targeted memory reactivation’
‘Amazing breakthrough!’
‘Why do most 16-year-olds drive like they’re missing part of their brain? Because they are.’
‘Go the Fuck to Sleep’
‘And hence we have this book.’
‘The relationship became about talking about the relationship.’
‘Midnight’