"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

The writer’s job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.

People deceive themselves, or deceive each other, that is the origin of comedy.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.