As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?

People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing…

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

Everyone changes all the time.

When you see the world that God sees, you see a world that is loving, compassionate, and filled with individuals who live together in harmony and peace.

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.