I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

My best works are for me. Not for the world.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

To me, anything goes. But that's me.