I've never really been a fan of violence.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

A life without glitter is no life at all.

Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

a square is not just about light, air, proportion, and people. It must also give form to some shared notion of civic identity. [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.