The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.