The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

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.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.