As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.

You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti

I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

I never went wrong by being myself.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.