No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.

Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Rights come from God, not from government.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain in the...or have an opinion.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

The Universe offers all things to all people through the law of attraction.

William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] - that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star - that's very gratifying.

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