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

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.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.

Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!