"I don't believe in the concept of a 'comfort zone'. I believe in pushing boundaries and exploring the unknown."

The past is always carried into the present by small things.

There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are servants of the light, children of fire.

The writer must be able to superintend himself and criticize himself.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

Sometimes silence speaks louder than words.