Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of the universe are objective, but human beings in any context are not. That includes with regard to science. To some extent, the supposed objectivity of science has given a lot of extra cover to very subjective and eccentric approaches to exploring aspects of ourselves and the universe around us.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.