When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Action isn’t just the effect of motivation

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.