I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.

By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

I just see many, many untruthful things. I see tone, the word tone. The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way.The tone is such - I do get good ratings, you have to admit that.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.