I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.