When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

What can we do without pain in front of happiness?

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Looking foolish does the spirit good.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own