There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses..

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school….

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from realit….

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside..

I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It m….

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes..

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar sc….

It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very we….

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The trut….

Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment….

I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever ho….

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point..

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is th….

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, t….

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family..

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future..

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate..

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for som….

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable ….

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?.