I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.
Alice Thomas EllisI have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.
Alice Thomas EllisOptimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Alice Thomas EllisDeath is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis