Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Discover where and what makes you come alive and make a deliberate decision to live there.

My journey was not over, it was just beginning.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.