Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can not beat them, and if you can not beat them, join them, as they say. As I have got older I have become very interested in that part of the work.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

I never discuss a novel while I am writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

I think people that have fear that, Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that. It is kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.