This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

Models are what they are... people who model clothing, that's all.

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

I let people off the hook too easily.