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

We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

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

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.