We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.

No one should ever be punished for feeling love.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Experiences come and go; however, my love for myself is constant.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.