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.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

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

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.