A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

For till the thunder and trumpet be, Soul may divide from body, but not weOne from another

So, Slade, the swearing, the poor english and everything else is just a facade. You're really quite a deep and intelligent man, aren't you?

Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.

Faith is a great gift to have.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term