Anticipation tingled in my stomach: the kind of tingle that at first you don’t know if it’s a good tingle or a bad tingle – just a tingle.

It’s still all “ifs” “buts” and “maybes”.’ ‘Maybe, ’ I said. ‘But if what I’m saying is correct …

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.

May you live to be as old as 120 years old.

He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.