That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

I'm always constantly battling with dry patches. I think I need a Plan B. Thankfully, I've always been able to pull something out of the bag in the heat of the moment.

Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good?

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.