And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

Very few problems cannot be solved by either coffee, wine or chocolate.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.

Now c'mon - if we die, we die cool.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

The hardest game to win is a won game

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.