As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

Don't become so materialistic and mechanized that one day you stop believing in God's created nature and the natural beauty, Enjoy god gifted natural beauty to the fullest as you have only one LIFE!!!

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.

Steroids build your muscles, but they don't build your tendons or ligaments.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.