For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.

Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.

After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one’s life to the light than to the dark.

You clobber Death when he's breathing in your ear and see how you feel about the club.

Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.

It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.