I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.