As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.

There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

Books are only half our job

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

I'm just getting used to all the interviews and promo things, I'm slowly learning. It's very strange.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

I think I'm going to be around awhile.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

'Friends' will always remain friends.