I was almost twelve years old when I decided to kill my parents.

Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code-"It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.

You can find hope in despair. Dwell on positive thoughts.

It’s not about getting something

Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

Win now, and we'll walk together forever.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.