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I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.