When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.