If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

How can I shut downIf you don't open up??

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!

Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge.