science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?