"I was always a lover of soft-winged things."

-- Victor Hugo

“When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.”
“As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.”

Source : "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.
“A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.”
“I piss on you all from a considerable height.”
“The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.”
“The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.”
“Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.”
“I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.”

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