If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.

If you are ignorant about who You are, your Enemies are not

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

I've written a little bit in Germany.