"My attitude to writing is.. it's like when you do wallpapering, you know, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet, you think: "Oh my God that's horrible..." And then your friends come and say: "Who did this wallpapering? It's terrific!"

"No artist can develop without increasing his self-knowledge; but self-knowledge supposes a certain preoccupation with the meaning of human life and the destiny of man. A definite set of beliefs — Meth…"

"I hope that our governments learn from the Western governments how to serve the people."

"Every man knows that in his work he does best and accomplishes most when he has attained a proficiency that enables him to work intuitively. That is, there are things which we come to know so well tha…"

"I couldn’t have invented crisps. I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. I invented apples. I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil."