There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.