I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.

I love you, and I know you love me too.I’m just not sure that’s enough anymore.Don’t we both deserve more than this struggle?

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happenedlike I imagined them.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.