In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.

Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.