Emotion is a rotten base for politics..

I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her some….

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough ….

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone..

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer..

THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would ….

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is th….

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision..

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, ….

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin..

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greate….

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that f….

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been..

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you..

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted..

Good manners are a sign of strength..

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more co….

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it..

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them..

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and ….