Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears

Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.