I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

If you the best, take the test!

When one life changes, many lives are changed.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.