My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.