Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

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

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.