Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

I am older than your age and younger than your body.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

Once you reach the top of the mountain and you want to climb the next one, you have to slowly make your way down that first mountain. Trying to jump from the summit would get you hurt or killed.