The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.