What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Science/horror/Non-Fiction/Technology/Music/Games/Space... these are the subjects of future. The other again will develop but not with such speed like these here.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

It is not the bowing, the dancing, the clapping and the singing that produce the worship, for at best they can only express that worship, but it is the worship that produces the jubilant responses.

[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.