"When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains."

“It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.”

“I want to leave my country without leaving my home.”

“With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been offered. Phenomenal.' But, I was daunted, you know? Like the concept of trying to be a cop. It's just bizarre, man. Bizarre to even think about.”

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.”

“Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.”

Source : Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

“You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.”

“There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.”

“I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.”

Source : 'Journal of a Disappointed Man' (1919) 23 Oct. 1910