So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
I’m not into fame. I’m not into making money, outside of financing my books. I’m not into status. My thing is basically about time – not wasting it.
With a book, there’s no volume to turn up. You’re very naked with a book.
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book ‘Shock Doctrine.’ We make money on disaster.
I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that’s how I get it out – with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it’s always kind of a wail.
Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn’t mean anything to me.
I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they’re really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, ’was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I’m talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.
I like to think ‘The God Delusion’ is a humorous book. I think, actually, it’s full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it’s just that very often they haven’t read it.
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.
Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.