A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

But that is another story.

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

I extol life so much that I cannot make art.

I felt like the track came to us, but then it went beyond us.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.