“In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life.”(Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)”

“I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say.”

“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you’ve been to. I’m not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don’t have to be like anyone else. I’m walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”

“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”