In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?