I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

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

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.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.