It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.