Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.