...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

You say true, I say thankya.