I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.