Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no-one else can make them.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.