Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

To live in peace is to follow peace with all men

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.