"Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center."

“Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.”

“Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.”

“We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.”

“The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

“The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.”

“It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.”

“The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!”