First we will be best, then we will be first

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

The way I've been brought up to is take critiques and turn them into positives in my game.

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.