Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

Learning without thought is labour lost.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day it's not gonna be here. So just be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

I would feel much the way I feel when anybody is elected. You deal with what you end up getting.

You dont need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.