The way I came to miss the end of the world – well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years – was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Within you is the power of unlimited creation.

I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.

I would definitely like to be a slightly aging action hero with a smart mouth and have a little bit of fun.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.

It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.