Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown.

I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.

It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

Music is my religion.

Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

You should never poison a witch.

My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.