It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.

There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Christian love must be chased after, aspired to, and practiced.

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!