As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.