Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.