I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

Im an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets.

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

I'm just so grateful and astonished that I'm still respected and listened to.

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

You didn’t fail, you just didn’t use Cosmic Ordering.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with love from me to you.

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.