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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
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I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.
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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.
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Chicken's good. I like chicken.
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It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
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The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
