You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon

The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.

Suddenly I had to laugh. It was like realising you definitely need to projectile vomit when you thought you had it under control in some imprisoning form of public space.

I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.