Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.