I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

One who is not wise is proud he is wise.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

Two young, fit, healthy attractive people in love? There’s nothing worse to look at in the world.

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.