“This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.”

“Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable”

“So far no one has claimed responsibility.”

“The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.”

“You think I look like a teletubby?”

“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

“You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund”