A rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.
That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds.
People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.
People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But...
MR JEAVONS SAID THAT I liked maths because it was safe. He said I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting, but there was always a straightforwa...
Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and t...
Because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet u...
Prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever.
When you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken s...
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a...
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so w...
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person belie...
Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.
It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.
I see everything.
I like when it rains hard.It sounds like white noise everywhere,which is like silence but not empty.
I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some othe...