Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

He took a moment, as if he were deciding which tack to go with. I think he chose honesty, but it's so hard to tell. And if you chose honesty as a strategy, is it still honesty?

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin.

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

Things don't happen for no reason.

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)