I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury

I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.

Selfish acts will only lead to your own destruction.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better

Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's cuts.

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.