I Am Obstinate And I

At Some Point, My Body Will Collapse. But I Hope That My Brain Will Still Be Working So That I Can Carry On With Writing.

I've Always Felt You Don't Have To Be Completely Detached, Emotionally Uninvolved To Make Precise Observations. There's Nothing Wrong With Feeling Great Empathy For Your Subjects.

If You Look Through All The Different Cultures. Right From The Earliest, Earliest Days With The Animistic Religions, We Have Sought To Have Some Kind Of Explanation For Our Life, For Our Being, That Is Outside Of Our Humanity.

Of Course We're All Programmed Genetically To Some Extent. But The "selfish Gene" Thesis Doesn't Explain Everything.

I Don't Think That Faith, Whatever You're Being Faithful About, Really Can Be Scientifically Explained. And I Don't Want To Explain This Whole Life Business Through Truth, Science. There's So Much Mystery. There's So Much Awe.