There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.