And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

Creativity is never too contrived.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.