The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it..

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there..

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate..

A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly..

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse..

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional good; i….

Everything is going to change..

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature..

There's not ever much of anything going on in my head..

Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman..

I am not stroppy at all..

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way liter….

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are havi….

You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived..