Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

I have no relationship with Putin. I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.