In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear.

Bluestar's coming on patrol? Watch out for flying hedgehogs!

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.