Read moreI am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say ‘pass the mustard’.
Read moreMy theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach – they are intimately connected – and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.
Read moreI am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.
Read moreYou may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man’s endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.
Read moreThe universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.
Read moreMy grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.