You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

Before you can win, you must begin.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.