Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

We have truth in order not to die of art.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

Dreams always end before you kill the last person.

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.