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“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
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“Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.”
Source : "The Children of the Sky". Book by Vernor Vinge, 2011.
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“We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.”
Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012. 
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“Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.”
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“To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.”
Source : "I'm through with having Botox, says pop diva Lulu". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 31, 2008.
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“I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?”
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“Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you”
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“Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.”
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“I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.”
