At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's cuts.

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Life is like a videogame, the harder it gets the victory feels better

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.