Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.

Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.