The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.