Chesterton said, ‘What a man is really afraid of is a maze without a center.’ I suppose he was thinking of a godless universe, but I was thinking of the labyrinth without a minotaur. I mean, if anything is terrible it is terrible because it is meaningless… because the minotaur justifies the labyrinth… if there’s no minotaur, then the whole thing’s incredible… if there’s no monster, then the whole thing is senseless, and that would be the case for the universe, for all we know