It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

Optimism can be relearnt.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.