“I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feelin...” — Michel Faber Quote

“I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.”

“In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.”

“Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.”

“For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.”

“We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.”

“It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have to learn to co-exist in the 21st century, outside of divisive social constructs, religious or otherwise.”