I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.