Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.