I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.