Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

I kinda write in sequences that I live through.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.