Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

People die when curiosity goes.

I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

Life’s value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness.

Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

I try to just focus on the love and my family. That's what I'm focussed on every single day.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.