There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies