I’d learned early on that the best way to accomplish anything was to grit your teeth and fight your way through it with the best grace you could muster…

Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.

I just prefer my fiction with more teeth.

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.