"Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague."

“In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.”

Source : "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

“It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.”

Source : 1991 Speech at the Labour Party Conference, Oct.

“Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.”

“The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.”

“If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.”

“Take the regular wagon track and never leave it.”

“Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.”

“People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.”