The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really.

THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!

The only difference between where you are and where you want to be is the number of steps you haven't taken yet.

Admitting defeat? How un-huntress like of you.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

The new guys bring energy, intensity and emotion. The last couple games, they showed what they can bring to the team.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.