The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person; someone who would 'take me away from all this.'

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

In England, nobody's your friend.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.