I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.

What's a Laster? A dead man.

By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.

In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.

it is easier to induce national governments to discriminate against foreign producers than to defend the interests of domestic consumers

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

I think we want to be around people that kind of push us and inspire us and maybe teach us.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.