The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

Cosmic Ordering is like an echo! What you ask for comes back.

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.

Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.

A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.