The more at ease you are in the world, the more vibrant, creative and easygoing the world in you becomes.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.