People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self.

Beautiful food and health are priceless.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

I eat death threats for breakfast!

For some players, luck itself is an art

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

There is no salvation outside the church.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.