Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.