“The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the de...”

“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.”

“As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take o...”

“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

“...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.”

“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, m...”

“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. A...”

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”