I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories