By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the...
I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first...
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.
When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.