If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down.