In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."

Writing is a bit like being a god

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.