Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.

Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

I'm not a computer girl.