Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring.

If you don't keep track of great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.

In hypercompetitive world, the only way to make an impression on your customer is to break through the noise

I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.

I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.