"In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice."

“I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education.”

Source : Interview with Interview Magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

“Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.”

“Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (1994). “The folding star”, Pantheon

“Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.”

“In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.”

“The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.”

“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.”

Source : In Poynder 'Literary Extracts' (1844) vol. 1 (usually quoted as 'Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?')

“Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.”