In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.