Are you not entertained?

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

I have respect for beer.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!