On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

It’s amazing to consider just how many people smile at the thought of you.

...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

Money, is just paper that will burn with the judgement, but a mindset for the truth, is like a fountain of waters that will carry them through.

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

America cannot take another four years of Barack Obama, and that's what you're getting with Hillary Clinton.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.