People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.