So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.