The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
— David Mitchell
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 off.
You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
