"To be honest, the end of the book [The Shining] seemed a bit hackneyed to me and not very interesting."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"The artist is a man who has to create a new way of looking at the world."

"Perhaps it's a good thing that I'm not very social, because I don't think I could stand the company of most living people."

"I have always been interested in the question of how to be human."