We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.

I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.

Reading can be dangerous.

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.