"I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go."

“My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.”

Source : "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

“Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.”

“Death is very, very terminal.”

Source : "National Business Review", (p. 10), May 1, 1987.

“You will never understand pleasure without pain.”

“Some politicians are scared of Putin and some are extremely apologetic, actually. And I feel very sorry for this because some people who are like my friends from the left flank, they praise Putin because they see him as the fighter against American imperialism, which he is not. You know, why would you select between American imperialism and Russian imperialism? To my mind, it's exactly the same thing.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

“I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.”

“I'm in love with hope.”

“Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.”