New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's cuts.

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.