Quotes About Author

People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.

Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families.

I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!

I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

I wonder…," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.