Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about?

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.