Storytelling has a narcotic power.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

History is too important to be left to the historians.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.