On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

When I go home to visit, they never treat me like a celebrity. They still treat me like TJ. If I leave dishes in the sink, they'll let me know.