Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

Confession and repentance might be described as the negative side of submission

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend tokeep.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

I don't like to joke about dating.

Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

When you think about the person responsible for creating the character and the dialogue, Bill Monahan, who's a Boston guy, obviously, his words roll off my tongue quite nicely.

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.