Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.