I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue.

I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met.

I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

In this sublime hour therefore He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.