Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.