I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.

We must remember to enjoy ourselves.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

I can't abide small talk.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.