There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Humanity isn't just a work, but it's a divine nature which makes you God.

Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.