Capitalism needs war.

I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet. . . . If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.

I do not think my life would make a very interesting book, ' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.

Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.