I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

There is always time for failure

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.

I believed that I could go to the Super Bowl and win multiple Super Bowls and do all of those things. I believe in that every day.

Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.