Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Comments and Image

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.

Comments and Image

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

Comments and Image

People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there.

Comments and Image

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Comments and Image

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life.

Comments and Image

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

Comments and Image

It is straightforward�and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Comments and Image

When you�ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Comments and Image

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Comments and Image