Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

In every voyage, be fully present.

Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.

your only barriers are what you let it be

This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.