Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.