Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

The passions often engender their contraries.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.