One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.

I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

Why can't we breathe now, In this moment we have breath?

To strengthen your power of love, Love those who do not deserve your love.

Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

This is awful. Do it again.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.