"There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention."

“Fernando Torres' English seems to be coming on good”

Source : "Daft quotes of the week" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. September 29, 2008.

“The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.”

“I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

“We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed”

“Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”

“What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?”

“The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.”

Source : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

“Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?”