I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a d….

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things..

All my work comes out of my life..

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club ….

The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles i….

I even watched Mulholland Drive in French... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either..

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame..

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like..

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these b….

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty..

Life's a pitch, and then you buy..

You are someone and you have a right to your life..

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape..

There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'.….

When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exis….

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calam….

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at..

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it..

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good..

History is absolutely my thing..