I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

I... do... not... do... lightning.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.