“You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kin…” — Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.