It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Where the Self [Soul] is forgotten

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.