Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.