I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Without Christ Jesus, I am nothing.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

To be labelled a cheat - it's not fair. If I'm a cheat, then prove I'm a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Love makes me feel vulnerable.

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.