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“... Most professional philosophers think of themselves primarily as scholars, as hunters and gatherers in the field of understanding with no particular commitment to serve society in any other role. Yet some philosophers have lately found to their delight that they can be useful: indeed that their advice is actually sought by those who have to take decisions of policy or practice ...”

“... Blumenthal was a 19-year-old psychology student at UCLA when he and his philosophy student friend Barbara Weidman started to visit the O’Connors in 1950: both had read The Fountainhead at high school, and both were besotted by it. Quickly, very quickly, these star-struck, good-looking youngsters became Rand’s best friends, surrogate children, protégés ...”

“... widow allowed Annie to mix with women of radical ideas and public ambition: Florence Nightingale, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Emily Davies. Her feminist instincts took shape in such company. She began to take a part in public affairs, presenting evidence on the education of girls to the Taunton Commission, established in 1864 to ...”

“... ironically in Daniel Deronda. But she also meant it. ‘It proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.’ Cough, cough, splutter. But surely a bit of relief lies in the notion that one doesn’t necessarily have the last (or even the first) say on how one appears. That’s the gossip’s privilege, and damnable as it might be, it can’t be much worse than ...”

“... At least on 101 you get to drive next to the ocean for longer and at one point pass through Santa Barbara. I’ve always liked Santa Barbara: even if it’s mainly 1920s fake-Spanish, it reminds me of how California used to be when I was a kid, before my parents split up. You also go up the western rather than eastern side ...”