If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.