Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.