There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

The Jews run all the banks. Well, we do. The Jews run the media. Well, we do. You know, I mean they're right about all that stuff.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.