It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.