Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not as good at, leaving a bunch of fans going, "But he was really good at that. Why isn't he still doing it?"

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.

Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.