Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

Christians are losers.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be