No person ever died that had a family.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.