I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

One of the greatest lies ever told is that there’s no power in vulnerability.

Even AWESOME MOMS use the F-BOMB!

Time is a fixed income and as with any income the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Im only as good as my team, I love you guys so much

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.