I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.

I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.

Be seasonal, ethical and gentle.

It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

War will make corpses of us all.

This state of independence shall be!

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.