Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

I like that - the "you-ish" character.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.