Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

You've slipped away like a fistful of sand. You've vanished so quickly like a wind. Do you know how I long to hold you love of my life.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

People pay to see blood, they pay to see war and that's why people are supporting my journey because I deliver every time I step in the ring.

I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.