“For us to respond in that way to hateful speech... we empower the worst of us .. to create chaos around the world.”

“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”

“By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”

“Sometimes it takes a little chaos for things to work themselves out. When we make it through the chaos, we can use it to shape the world around us into something better than it was before”

“As he fills me I wonder if – in the same way that sex makes its own unique perfume – we don’t really “make” love. As in create, manufacture, evoke an independent element in the air around us, and if enough of us did it really well, for real, not just for the hell of it, we could change the world.”

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”