Quotes About Author

I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Dieu n'est pas l'Auteur de l'Univers, c'est le scénariste de votre biopic.

I hate it when people say swearing isn't necessary. Things not being necessary is what makes life interesting, the little extras in life.

That's an interesting point,' said Adrian, 'in the sense of not being interesting at all.

Get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael … get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael.

You're on the list. If you had anything to do with this piece of shit then you are in trouble.

His humans were happy, yes; but to Prometheus such a safe, unchallenged, and unchallenging existence had no zest to it.

Smyrna's baby grew up to be a youth of the most unparalleled physical attractiveness. Oh dear, I've written this too many times for you to believe me again.

I had a disturbing dream last night. Most disturbing. Would you like to hear it?" "Absolutely," lies Zeus, who has, in common with us all, a horror of hearing the details of anyone else's dreams.

I would recommend to anyone Professor Alan Bullock's definitive Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, Daniel Goldhagen's brilliant Hitler's Willing Executioners as well as the above mentioned Those Were the Days.

Heracles listened to Laomedon's self-pitying and largely fabricated version of the events leading up to Hesione's sacrifice.

I doubt that he even considered that," Sebastian said. "His obsession is his entire horizon.

It's almost October though, and horror is my religion. Can I not celebrate orthodoxly and honor my church's holy days?

So Hamlet was quite right. We could be bounded in a nutshell and count ourselves kings of infinite space.

I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988).

Equações são mais importantes para mim, pois a política existe para o presente, ao passo que uma equação existe para a eternidade.

Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.

We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.

Some people make a great mystery of this idea, sometimes called the multiverse concept, but these are just different expressions of the Feynman sum over histories.

Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it!

The Aristotelian tradition also held that one could work out all the laws that govern the universe by pure thought:

our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.