... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Love is a sacred entity.

If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with himself

You were right. I can't be trusted around people." "What does that make me? A stuffed potato?

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

I am a parasite off beauty.

No act of kindness is wasted.