My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.

I took the plug out of the chemical bath of lust that my wits were soaking in and waited for it to empty. I smoked a cigarette while I contemplated the return of reason.

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

When passion rises to its full expression, it touches the soul and lifts the spirit.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

. . . in the storm of emotions, we can create a small, peaceful sanctuary within.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Today is a gift I honor by fully living it.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!