"Ian McEwan: I guess my starting point would be: the brain is responsible for consciousness, and we can be reasonably …"

"Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a God. … It's human, univers…"

"We went to a club where singers and stand-up comedians performed in the hope of being discovered. A thin girl with br…"

"I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way."

"He had once felt light on the ground. He used to think his life was an open-ended adventure, he used to give things a…"

"You want a picture of futility? It's a tunnel in the desert, from nowhere to nowhere, four hundred and fifty feet long."

"Nearby, where the main road forked, stood an iron cross on a stone base. As the English couple watched, a mason was c…"

"Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of y…"

"On a recent Sunday evening, Theo came up with an aphorism: the bigger you think, the crappier it looks. Asked to expl…"

"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing."