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.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

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

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

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