It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

Books do furnish a room.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Transformation as a psycho emotional phenomenon functions as a loop: changing the way you perceive Change

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.