You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!