I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.