Life may be scaryBut it’s only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and new ideas is incredibly gratifying.

Anyone who promises you something that you have not earned is seeking to enslave you.

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.