Without rain, there would be no life.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.