Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

Hell is other people's fantasies.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.