Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.