I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.