Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

All property is theft, except mine.

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

Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.