But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.

Television is a young person's medium.

You know what circumcision is, Private?

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

We all suffer from dreams