Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

Intelligence is ten million rules.

Only non-judgmental love can set you free—not truth.

Broken people are so beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

I'm having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.