Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.

You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so... I don't know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger.

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

The world is always full of promise.

I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.