The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance!

I'm going to come out and tell it like it is.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.

Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

Believe in everything you do cause if you don't have self-belief, you'll be clueless.

I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.