I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

Everybody writes a book too many.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Be happy with who you are, and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself.

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

Life's a car ride. Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!

Every girl deserves a guy that could make her smile even when she doesnt want to.

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

Negative thoughts can take root in your mind and distort the severity of the situation. Try to challenge your fears, ask if they’re true, and see where you can take back control.