Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.

I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

The world is always greater than your desires

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

I think just having smooth skin is so great because when you get your summer tan, you don't have to do anything. It's just soft and smooth.

I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.