“NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!”

“Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”

“The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.”

“Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.”

“Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.”

“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”

“I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.”