Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated liars in the world.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.