"Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad."

"There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books."

"I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be."

"I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be."

"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."

"I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame."