I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.