We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one’s Tuesday.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.