Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

Life is love. Love is light.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

I remain myself. I have never cared about others misjudging me

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.